Synonym: balance, bony, dispense with, do without, excess, extra, forego, give up, lanky, lean, leftover, omit, part with, relinquish, remainder, sacrifice, scrawny, skinny, surplus, surrender, thin, yield. Antonym: waste. Similar words: spark, sparse, sparkle, sparrow, spartan, disparage, sparkling, transparent. Meaning: [sper /speə] n. 1. an extra component of a machine or other apparatus 2. an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle 3. a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls. v. 1. refrain from harming 2. save or relieve from an experience or action 3. give up what is not strictly needed 4. use frugally or carefully. adj. 1. thin and fit 2. more than is needed, desired, or required 3. not taken up by scheduled activities 4. kept in reserve especially for emergency use 5. lacking in amplitude or quantity 6. lacking embellishment or ornamentation.
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121) They've made the spare room into an office.
122) I'll get a spare key cut for you.
123) He does boxing in his spare time.
124) He could have taken a spare key.
125) She made the rendezvous with only minutes to spare.
126) Have you any money to spare?
127) I am accustomed to a spare diet.
128) Can you spare a minute?
129) The horse cleared the fence with inches to spare.
130) Nigel coaches a cricket team in his spare time.
131) He writes poetry in his spare time.
131) Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
132) She devotes all her spare time to gardening.
133) Spare him, I beseech you.
134) We have enough fruit and to spare.
135) It's not as if he has money to spare.
136) His sister took to knitting in her spare time.
137) I'd like you to come over when you can spare a couple of hours.
138) There are some spare hangers in the wardrobe if you want to hang your dress up.
139) I caught the plane with only two minutes to spare.
140) Do it in a spare moment at the weekend or whenever - it really doesn't matter.
141) We didn't tell Jane because we wanted to spare her feelings.
142) I'm as fit as a fiddle — with energy to spare.
143) Well, first of all we can't possibly spare the time.
144) As it happens, I have a spare set of keys in my office.
145) I'll go and see if there are any spare seats.
146) We made up the bed in the spare room for our guest.
147) You should spare a thought for the person who cleans up after you.
148) He doesn't know how to dispose of his spare time.
149) They're not badly-off but they don't have much money to spare.
150) I like to do a bit of gardening in my spare time.
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